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For anyone looking to build a clustered virtualization solution, I recommend checking out Googles Ganeti: http://www.ganeti.org

It doesn't look like much, but is rock solid and supports everything Proxmox does and more, save for the lack of a built-in web UI (but there are several 3rd party ones, as Ganeti is 100% API driven).

No affiliation, but have successfully deployed it at multiple sites (and would love to do so again, wink wink).

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What web gui do you like for it?

IMHO that's the strongest feature proxmox has is ease of use through a gui.

Correct me if I'm wrong but Ganeti only does Xen VMs while ProxMox also does LXC containers. Nice to have both via one central UI.

Good to know!

Ganeti can use either Xen, KVM and LXC hypervisors -- I've actually only used the KVM backend.

I've used Ganeti Web Manager[0] in the past, but would probably try out Ganetimgr[1] for future installs. The command-line tools are very good however, and I don't think the web interfaces expose the full functionality (i.e. rebalancing, node evacuation, master-failover, etc).

0: https://github.com/osuosl/ganeti_webmgr

1: https://github.com/grnet/ganetimgr

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